Read it or Delete it? How would you answer an “Email from G-d?”
By Roberta Rosenberg on May 26, 2008 in Occasional Rantings, Running Your Biz, Uncategorized
In my daily post from the Judaism forum at Beliefnet.com came this interesting set of soul exercises. Having written a fair number of emails in my day — and who wouldn’t want a soul workout — this particular one seemed intriguing so I’m sharing.
Basically Rabbi Brian (Rabbi Brian? What kind of name is Rabbi Brian? 
) posits that you imagine you open your in-box and find an e-mail with the subject line: An e-mail from God. (or G-d for us Hebraic types.)
Now making the giant leap that this email wouldn’t have been sent directly to your SPAM box … AND … depending on the identity of the email’s sender, what do you imagine the message would offer?
- Praise?
- Condemnation?
- An answer to a question that you’ve been asking?
- Advice?
- A forwarded joke? (would it be a dirty joke or uplifting?)
- What?
And once the woo-woo Twilight Zone music in your head stopped, how would you reply, if at all? (Or would you simply ask God for HIS (for argument’s sake) Twitter name so you could answer in short, 140-max character tweets?)
After a few hours of cleaning the garage today, I’d be hoping MY email from G-d would answer my prayer and tell me that I’m next in line to win the Mega Millions - just a few million because there’s no need to be greedy. My reply - a simple, elegant - THANK YOU, LORD and recite the Shema and a Shehechiyanu.
Barring that, I’d take the joke and hope that it’s funny. That way, I could send back a ROFL and a big 
So, how about you?
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Sonia Simone | May 26, 2008 | Reply
I think it would be the cross-stitch sampler in Mole’s house from Wind in the Willows. (Remembered very dimly and possibly wrong.) “Things are never so dreadful as they seem.”
To which I suppose I would reply, “Prove it.”
Roberta Rosenberg | May 27, 2008 | Reply
@Sonia - You’re a brave girl. “Prove it” strikes me as rife with, shall we say, dramatic possibilities
Sonia Simone | May 29, 2008 | Reply
Oh yeah, if the big guy really exists, I’m in a world of trouble.
Roberta Rosenberg | May 29, 2008 | Reply
@Sonia - you mean ‘netherworld’, don’t ya?
Ross Popoff-Walker | Jun 25, 2008 | Reply
Hmm.. this vaguely reminds me of a site I came across called Dear-god.net http://tinyurl.com/5gyquz
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Christine | Jun 25, 2008 | Reply
Now this has got me thinking… how would you prove it was from who it says its from? I think I would have to ask about world disasters and why he lets them happen etc.